Aleksi Ojala

Aleksi Ojala
	Ojala at the 2015 European Cup Race Walking
Personal information
Born	9 December 1992 (age 31); Urjala, Finland
Sport
Country	Finland
Sport	Athletics
Event	50km Race Walk

Aleksi Ojala (born 9 December 1992 in Urjala) is a Finnish racewalker who competes mostly at the 50 kilometres race walk. Ojala's club is Urjalan Urheilijat.

After some initial disappointing world championship results, Ojala achieved two top-20 World Athletics Championships finishes. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, he did not finish the 50 kilometres.^[1] However two years later, he finished 14th at the 2017 World Championship 50 km walk.^[2]

In 2018, he competed in the men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany, but he failed to finish again.^[3] He rebounded in the new 35 km walk at the 2022 World Championships, where he finished 13th and was the best racewalker from his country.^[4]

In July 2024, Ojala retired from the sport.^[5]

Records

^ "50 kilometres walk results from 2015 Beijing" (PDF). media.aws.iaaf.org. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
^ Aleksi Ojala at World Athletics
^ "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
^ Aleksi Ojala at World Athletics
^ ""Matka on ollut hieno" – Aleksi Ojala päättää kilpailu-uransa". urjalansanomat.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 29 August 2024.
^ "European Athletics - Athlete: Aleksi Ojala". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 2015-08-30.

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